Contributing to the payment of blood money as expiation for freeing a slave
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I have an expiation to fulfill, which is freeing a slave. Is it permissible for me to contribute to freeing a person who killed another by participating in the payment of the blood money?
Answer:
That is not freeing a slave. That means you are paying the blood money so that he is not executed by retaliation. That is not freeing a slave; it is participating in the debt of the debtor. The debtor is one of the categories of recipients of zakat, so you are helping him because he is a debtor. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I have an expiation to fulfill, which is freeing a slave. Is it permissible for me to contribute to freeing a person who killed another by participating in the payment of the blood money?
Answer:
That is not freeing a slave. That means you are paying the blood money so that he is not executed by retaliation. That is not freeing a slave; it is participating in the debt of the debtor. The debtor is one of the categories of recipients of zakat, so you are helping him because he is a debtor. Yes.
Source
العقيدة الواسطية 13-03-1438هـ — af.org.sa (59:26)
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